.

the car junkie daily magazine.

.

Author Archive: Brian Lohnes

Cool Site: Thunder V12 – Where the GMC 702 V12 is King!

One of the more amazing things to us is how many small companies pop up to fill niches in the automotive world. Thunder V12 is a small company that builds high performance versions of the old 702ci...

Show Gallery: The Burnout Houston 2011

The Burnout Houston 2011 was a rockin’ good time as BangShift Texas photo correspondent Charles Wickam found out. The show bills itself as being about, “Beer, Babes, Brats, Badass Rods,...

Cool Story: Washington State Bus Mechanic Wins Lottery – Buys Back Camaro Project

It is always nice to find a pearl of good in the sewer pipe of bad news that flows freely these days. A regular Joe bus mechanic named William Sitdham from Olympia, Washington recently won more than...

MSD Rolls Out a New Logo and a New Approach to the Aftermarket

MSD has announced that they’ve tweaked their familiar logo and more importantly that they are taking a fresh approach to the aftermarket in general, becoming a company that handles all aspects...

El Boom Video: Test and Tune Night in Vegas Goes Very Wrong For a Mustang Owner

The interesting thing about nitrous explosions is that their severity doesn’t necessarily line up with the seriousness of the machine involved. Basically, the street car guy is just as likely...

eBay Find: A Crazy Rare and Stupid Expenside 1937 Mack Jr Truck

While on family vacation last week, I was trolling eBay during some quiet time. My truck loving self search up Mack with the hopes of finding a stupid deal on an old Model B or something. Instead I...

Drag Gallery: The 2011 Shakedown at E-Town

The 2011 running of the “Shakedown at E-Town” continued in a tradition that is heading for a tenth year in 2012. There were lots of great cars, lots of big time runs and some of the...

Carnage Photos: Driveline Destruction From The World of Pulling Trucks

Last year during the Loring Timing Association’s fall meet, I dragged Freiburger, along with Keith and Tonya Turk to their first truck and tractor pull that was happening at a large fair up in...

Crazed Video: Tasca Mustang Cobra Jet Goes 8.06 -170 in Testing

Carl Tasca and his lead wrench Ralph Porier have done it again and this video proves it. Last Wednesday, Tasca jammed the shifted through all the gears in a near picture perfect lap at New England...

Dan Wheldon, Two Time Indy 500 Champ and Former IRL Champ Passes After Massive Las Vegas Wreck

Dan Wheldon, the father of two, two time Indy 500 winner and 2005 IRL series champion died following a massive 15 car crash at the IndyCar season finale at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Wheldon’s...

Event Coverage: NMRA Finishes Season On High Note in Bowling Green

As much as we try, the BangShift machine just can’t be everywher. But thanks to guys like John Fusco and Mike Galimi, we can still bring you results and highlights from the NMRA World Finals in...

Project Car Spotlight: The Roots Blown Mod Motor 33 Gets Paint and More

We don’t know where he gets the time, but in the 6 months following our last update Arrowhead has been busy. The Factory Five Racing ’33 has been sanded, rubbed, tweaked, painted and...

Drag Video: The Lingenfelter Flat Plane Turbo Camaro Goes 8.71-162mph!

We’ve showed you the Lingenfelter flat plane crank engine on the dyno naturally aspirated, making about 700hp. We then showed it to you on the dyno with a turbo making over 1,000hp. As the guys...

Diesel Power Video: A 15-second Quarter Mile Kenworth Dump Truck

Talk about a sleeper! This video shows a nice looking Kenworth T800 dump truck hauling ass down the quarter mile at New England Dragway in Epping, NH during their yearly Truck Nationals event....